A fire forced dozens of people from their apartments in Manchester on Monday morning.

No one was injured, and the fire was extinguished quickly.

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Investigators said they originally though the fire at the corner of Lake Avenue and Pine Street was started by an unattended cooking pot left on a stove. But they said they determined that a radio had been left on a burner, sparking the fire.

The fire was reported at 8:30 a.m.

"I was sleeping in my apartment," said resident Makram Farag. "Somebody knocked on the door, and after that, we went out, and I saw the smoke all the way up."

J.D. Davis, the building maintenance man, said he was the first to notice something was wrong inside apartment 32.

"You could feel the heat, and you could see the smoke coming from the door," he said.

Davis said he went around banging on doors. The building has 21 apartments, according to the property manager, and many have young children. Everyone made it out safely.

Davis said that once he was sure everyone was out, he went back in.

"I went and got her key to try and go in, but the door was too hot for me to go inside," he said.

Fire Chief James Burkush said it was a good thing Davis wasn't able to open the door.

"It was fortunate that J.D. didn't open the door and allow all the smoke and heat to travel out into the hallway," Burkush said.

It took firefighters about 15 minutes to put out the fire, and damage was confined to one apartment. Burkus said that while they weren't required in the building, sprinklers would have limited the damage.

"Had it been a sprinkler building, one sprinkler head would have controlled the fire," he said.

The other tenants have been allowed back in their apartments.

The property manager said he has an empty apartment that he can put the family in, and the Red Cross is also assisting the family.